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Shaj Mathew

Biography

Shaj Mathew studies contemporary literature and film from the Middle East, Latin America, and the Anglophone world. His dissertation, Wandering Comparisons, reads the global revival of flânerie in the present though a series of largely non-Western precursors to offer a new account of modernity. He will receive his Ph.D. from Yale in December 2019.

His scholarly articles have appeared or are forthcoming in Modernism/Modernity, Adaptation, and Critique; his scholarly reviews have appeared in Critical Inquiry. He also contributes literary criticism to The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, and The New Republic.

In 2014, he graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow of the Penn Humanities Forum.